The First King

"let me go... I can ignore all that happened." Tsohg said in a low voice while watching Sora who was removing all treasures of their battle here, to the point that even he couldn't sense what happened here.

"no, you're a treasure chest. you only have two paths before you, surrounded and be my dog and in return, you would have some freedom, or you can resist, become a pig for me to do as I wish, experiments, and so on." Sora said calmly, making Tsohg's face darken, he was willing to take a step back, yet even now Sora didn't give him face.

"than just kill me, but I bet you don't have the balls," Tsohg said through gritted teeth, Sora smiled slightly while looking around, seeing as there were no flaws here, he walked over to Tsohg,

"I'm not too foolish as to kill you, if your master finds out you've died, wouldn't I be given a hard time?" Sora asked with a smile, making Tsohg's face darkened slightly. Sora flew out, hitting his face and knocking him out,

"This guy was a true disappointment... I didn't even go all out," Sora said softly as his finger moved, skillfully removing the armor. while holding the armor, Sora could get a better view of the armor, this armor was no simple armor. it was of a high grade, which was slightly hard to see in the future.

Sora guessed if Tsohg could have used this armor to its fullest, Sora would have had to use stage 4 or stage 5 of lightning mode, and even then he might not win. but the armor was also damaged, some of the runes which used to be on this armor were no more,

"Golden isn't my color," Sora said with a shake of his head, armor was also not his type. Sora was more of a robes type of person. Sora put the armor into his storage room, but as it tried to enter, Sora found that this armor couldn't be stored away within a storage sting.

"it seems as if this armor can be stored within the king's treasury... on that note," Sora said softly as strings shot from his free 5 fingers, and plugged into Tsohg's forehead.

"from the tortoises, I can already guess there is another sky above this sky. this should be the lowest part of this sky, yet beings like the sword king and this treasury stuff have appeared here." Sora said softly as he watched Tsohgs slowly standing up with closed eyes

"The King's treasury is a technique I got thanks to Wu He. he gave me a map which I followed to a secret ground where I took a trail to gain the inheritance of someone known as the first king. He was the person who brought about the era of cultivation, he was known as the first cultivator, all human-type cultivation arts came from him in some way shape or form." Sora had strings form into the shape of a chair, he went on to sit down and listen.

This First king was someone even Sora have heard of, everyone knew of this legendary being, although his name was lost, people just called him the first king. millions, or even billions of years ago, Qi came to this world. it was unknown how or why beasts and other weird beasts were birthed,

back in that time before cultivation, humans were pushed to the age of death, and those talents who managed to use Qi were hunted down as demons, it was only when the first king stepped forward to support these humans. it was because of him that cultivation was birthed, they created this cultivation system from the bottom ups, and went on to fight against the beasts.

He was also known for having the best treasury, it was said that at one point in time, he held every treasure in the world. thanks to the technique he created, any treasure a human makes, would be reformed within his treasury.

but like all legendary beings, he meant his end, it was unknown how he died, but once he did his treasures spilled into this world, and the armor Tsohg had was one of these treasures,

Tsohg stumbled upon the first king's inheritance ground, shockingly, the land they stood on was where his mighty empire once stood. Tsohg got to see the first king, and upon seeing his talent and skill, he instantly gave him his inheritance deeming him a true genius who could carry on his legacy, and bring it to new heights.

from that event, Tsohg got the key to use his treasury. it was empty with only this armor remaining, it was up to him to collect the treasures,

"you are a half-human if I'm not mistaken." Tsohg who was speaking suddenly changed the subject while opening his eyes, he calmly looked towards Sora, his pupils turning red, he reached out and removed the 5 strings attached to his forehead,

Sora's body flashed, appearing far away from Tsohg, Sora was in shock for some time before he was hit with a realization, clasping his hands, he bowed slightly,

"It's a pleasure to see the first king, my apologies didn't realize I was messing up your chess game," Sora said as calmly, The First king smiled seeing Sora's reaction,

"This king is dead, you going out of your way to beat up my second life isn't too nice. everything was perfect, a mindless arrogant fool who I can easily take over fuse back with while destroying with, yet you are here making him humble." He said with a smile, Sora was speechless for a moment before he slowly took steps backward, why was he telling him this?

"setting up this for this second life was not easy, this guy right here I went out of my way to make him as arrogant and foolish as he could be. controlling this chess game so that this fool would stumble upon my so call inheritance was a pain in the ass. have you ever controlled a chess board from billions of years into the past? it's a real pain in the ass." He said with a smile as he stepped forward towards Sora,

"taking into account all possibilities, all the wrongs that could happen, controlling fate, this far into the future isn't easy." He said as he appeared before Sora as if he had teleported.

"Kid, this king likes you. that look in your eyes, I have seen many likes yourself, a genius who threw themselves into a field. you threw your humanity aside, and only care for the research, it was beings like you that brought upon this era. with you, I honestly would have needed a longer time to bring forth the era of humans." He said calmly, Sora who was stepping backward froze slightly in his footsteps,

"I will not kill you, but because of you, I would have to fuse with this guy's soul sooner than expected... take the armor with you, take it as a gift of goodwill." He said calmly, Sora opened and closed his mouth for a moment, but he didn't know what to say. someone who could be moving the chess pieces was standing before him, yet he had nothing to say.

"from the moment you were born, you were already a part of this game, this game to break this cage is going to wrap you up. you can run, but the more you run from it, the more you shall be wrapped up within it." He said as he turned and disappeared, leaving Sora standing there confused.

'sigh, what a pain in the ass. what did he mean by cage? can no one ascend or something?' Sora thought while shaking his head, with a step he went on to pick up the 4 who he came with while studying the armor.

from the moment he was born, Sora was already a chess piece, Sora just wonder what role he would be playing or what the game was all about. shaking his head.

'it went in?' Sora thought seeing how the armor went into the storage ring, he was confused for a moment, but his senses locked onto the first king who was already hundreds of Km away from him, sora frowned Slightly as he felt like he knew everything he was doing and allowed him to store the armor away.

'this feeling of being at the mercy of someone's hands is... not cool. What plans does he have for me? someone who can control fate, if I resist fate I will only speed things up... interesting, I could have died at that moment, yet...' Sora thought with a strange light flashing across his eyes,

taking the 4, he flew off into the sky on top of his flying sword, heading towards the village where the mission would be taking place. this time he was going at full speed, unlike before when he was going slow so as not to scare off Tsohg.

Sora arrived at a village with red rocks at his side hours later. it was a small village, maybe home to about 500 or so villagers. Sora went on to land there, while at the same time waking up the 4. the 4 slowly woke up and were confused for a moment, but upon seeing that they had arrived at the place of the missions, they were stunned.

"great immortals, thank you for answering our calls." the villagers who were up early and working were stunned seeing Sora and the others. they all fell to their knees as if they saw a god who came from heaven,

"go and collect information about the undead, we know not what made the undead, the mission is to collect information and not stop this. so don't try and do more than needed," Sora said calmly before he floated them to the ground,

"I will be over there, just yell my name when you need me," Sora said calmly as he flew off toward a forest, where he went on to use his strings to make a desk, where he took out the stuff he bought and began working. He had all night to think of what he should make, and the light bulb was going to be the first thing.

he had everything needed to create it, and with alchemy, he could shape the stuff needed into something else.

back the other 4 who came with Sora, went on to take Sora's words seriously, they asked around and got as much information as they could, before heading to the forest where the undead was coming from to get information,

"Bill, look at these footprints," a young man said softly as he looked at the seemly normal footprints of a human, but they gave off a hint of a death aura. the person named Bill nodded slightly seeing the footprints,

"from the size, imprint, and shape of these footsteps, I will say it was an undead male, he should be a lesser zombie, unable to run and stuff, and is slowly dying," Bill said softly after rubbing the footprints before he froze slightly. just when did he get so smart at stuff like this?

"yes, there are also more. I guess someone must be controlling their form within the forest, zombies don't just appear. they are walking with a goal in mind." another said softly, before they all went quiet, since when were they so sharp?

"it must be elder brother Fu," Bill said with bright eyes, everyone's eyes brighten in worship, truly their elder brother was amazing, but at that thought, what did he do?

but they were asking the wrong question, Sora only played a small role in this, when one reaches 100% loyalty, they would give it their all in everything, for example, to impress Sora they took in more information and processed said information far better than go.

they had 100% of their attention on following through with Sora's orders, if they were to cultivate, they would have that their talent would have seemly improved, mental demons would be much more easily handled, and so on. this was 100%, not 99.999%, they were like those mad believers willing to die and go through the worst suffering for Sora,

"let's get going Billy, I don't want to disappoint elder brother," Bill said softly, the one named Bill nodded and they all moved forward, collecting more information. time passed, and it was soon night yet they couldn't find where the undead had seemly come from. it was like they came out of nowhere.

confused and not knowing how to move on, they returned to report everything they had gathered to Sora. but when they arrived, they saw a light coming from the forest, but they sensed no usage of energy. they quickly went on guard before they rushed into the forest, but they only saw Sora sitting on a chair before a table.

on the table, a strangely shaped orb was giving off light, the orb was shocked by wires which were stabbed into a potato.

"What did you find?" Sora said with a smile as he finally finished, the fact they came just in time to see this was not expected, and he didn't care. what he just did was create a light bulb, and power it using a potato. it took many tries to find the right stuff to use was a pain in the ass, he was building these off memories from his 3rd-grade class, which was like 60 years into the past, something which was a pain in the ass to remember.

[New ability has been unlocked [Scientist]}

Sora bought this ability while the 4 began reporting everything to Sora, they didn't even notice that Sora was acting weird. they were too loyal to see Sora's flaws or anything of the kind.

while they talked, Sora went on to go through everything he knew in his past, which quickly began giving him XP, {Scienist] quickly began to level up, and it easily reached level 4 by the time they were done talking.

"you say they seem to come from out of nowhere... try and find how they appear. many things could be going on. one is someone is so bored as to summon them, the second is that there might be a pocket space around here, and 3rd, you missed something. stay far and watched the spots where they seemed to have suddenly appeared. make sure to rest," Sora said calmly the 4 were moved at how much Sora cared about them, they nodded and moved to go carry out the missions.

'so many flaws.' Sora thought while looking at the light bulb, he began fixing his mistake, which in return gave him more XP. Sora thought for a moment, what if he covered Qi in electricity? back on earth, they could convert natural gas, nuclear energy, coal wind, hydropower, solar power, biomass, wind, and geothermal all into electricity.

'but what if a enter a place where Qi isn't a thing... I should try and make my creation gather energy from everything,' Sora thought as he went on to mess around with the light bulb, it didn't take long for him to reach [Scienist] level 6, at which point Sora gained a new ability.

it was something that could be called Super Science, with this ability Sora could create things like a lightsaber, create genetic clones, and other stuff. using the knowledge he already had, he slowly began to perfect them, becoming smarter and smarter by the second,

at the moment, Sora if given time could create an Iron-Man suit and much other stuff. Sora thought for some time before he waved his hands, the ground opened up, turning into stairs leading down into the earth. he was using [Earth Master] to of course do this.

picking up the stuff, Sora left behind a string clone to take care of stuff, while he went on to make an underground basement about 10,000 Km underground.

'well, I should start making clones of myself. I should of course start with other humans, I also need to make computers and stuff, but that would be easy. I should try and upload myself to computers I would set up everywhere I can find, upon death, my mind would be uploaded onto these computers or clones I have ready. and this is a cultivation world, stuff like things having their own will and going against its master is rare.' Sora thought with a smile,

in this world, if a sword gains a soul of its own, it's almost impossible for the sword's soul to backstab its master... get it, backstab. because it's a sword, and it stabs stuff... and going against your master would be backing them...

anyways, sword spirits are pure upon birth, they would remain pure and loyal to their master even after the master is dead. this is because they were like babies, Of course, Sora knew A.I. were different, and that's why Sora was going to be careful. he might just send the spirit of something else to become his A.I. if proven to be troublesome.

So, Sora first went on to work with making electronics and similar stuff, from a light bulb, by the end of the night, he had created a voice recorder, a camera, a flashlight, and lastly a speaker. these were just the basic stuff, but they shouldn't be looked down upon.

for one, the flashlight was bright enough to blind someone, which was of course because of the resources Sora used to create them, they were far better than what could be found on earth, and by this morning, Sora [Scienist] ability has reached level 8, which allowed him to more skillfully use the resources he has, and be faster when using them,

in minutes, Sora can skillfully put make a lightbulb from ores, Sora foresaw himself making a making computer another day, as since he didn't major in stuff like genetics and other rated stuff, it would take around a week for him to start making a clone of himself.